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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Totally agree with @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social. It’s about intimidation, not infrastructure.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

About time this was dusted off!

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Dan Waterfield @danwaterfield.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The response to the militia yesterday has made me much more pessimistic about the uk.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

That’s why it’s so problematic that Kent Police described the far right protest in Dover yesterday as “spontaneous”. It looks like an attempt by them to justify not investigating and prosecuting the organisers.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Under section 11 of the Public Order Act 1986, it’s a criminal offence not to give advance notice of a protest which takes the form of a procession. There is an exception for cases where the giving of notice is “not reasonably practicable”, for example if it’s organised at short notice.

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

British universities are now gripped by the ultimate madness. Some unis are bankrupting everyone else accepting students they can't even take and have to leave in limbo... While putting everyone on redundancy notice! It's crazed. Still no-one will intervene. thetab.com/2026/08/24/u...

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University of Exeter offers deferred places following shortage of student accommodation

The university said it has not been able to offer accommodation to all students

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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

A country and a governing class letting **individual institutions** decide on language provision - contracting out one of the key sinews of any state. A country that is burning itself down from the inside. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Cutting language courses puts social mobility at risk, say UK experts

Exclusive: University moves and falling exam entries fuel concerns about opportunities for working-class pupils

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Well done FIFA for a draw guaranteeing that at most two from Brazil (ranked 6), Morocco (7) and the Netherlands (8) could get to the last 16.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Shocking speech by Chris Philp at Policy Exchange today. Debate about border control, immigration enforcement and appeal rights is one thing. Scapegoating - of immigration categories and of immigration advocates - is altogether more sinister.

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Adam Ramsay @adamramsay.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

What we’re not being told about racist riots in the north of Ireland: abolishwestminster.substack.com/p/what-were-... by an anonymous activist in Belfast.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Is there a dictation app out there which 1) types live as you speak 2) does not switch off when you type corrections, and 3) understands basic commands such as delete and backspace?

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

“the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans”

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

“The general who wins the battle makes many calculations … before the battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations beforehand.”

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

“If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.”

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

What would Sun Tzu have made of the US-Iran war?

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Thanks to Jawaahir Daahir for sharing the journey and the message.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Went to Parliament today, to say how damaging the earned settlement model would be in highly diverse places like Leicester.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

It’s obviously not a great record from a democratic perspective, but still not a hopeless one./

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

And of course there have been many examples of debates in the Lords on ‘motions of regret’.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

There have though been a couple of debates via urgent questions in recent times (2021 and 2024). Also, we have seen many Westminster Hall debates on the substance of Rules changes.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

The thing which has not happened since 2008 is a debate on a ‘motion to disapprove’ a statement of changes to the Rules.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

While I agree with the basic point that it’s difficult to get the Immigration Rules debated in the Commons chamber …

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Natacha @natacha.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Totally this. The rightwing hate “journalists” are spinning Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man as Islamist sectarianism.

Salma Yaqoob @SalmaYaqoob
Almost feel sorry for the haters who are trying to spin Muslims voting for a woman in a party led by a gay Jewish man is evidence of Islamist sectarianism
In fact it's evidence of genuine tolerance, rejection of superficial identity politics and ability to prioritise tackling common concerns of cost of living, protecting public services and rejecting war mongering.
And the promotion of mutual respect and individual freedoms.
The coming together of people is terrifying for the ruling elites.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

It’s truly bizarre to describe the election campaign of a white English woman as ‘sectarian’ because she sought and gained support from Muslim voters.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

It would be ironic if Mr Yusuf’s own British citizenship depended on one or both of his parents having had ILR when he was born, or their having acquired it afterwards.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Ps to previous thread. I am curious to know how Zia Yusuf himself became a British citizen. He was born in 1986, and online sources say that his parents moved to work in the UK in “the early 1980s”.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Taking away ILR would require a replacement rule of some kind in nationality law- but what would that be??

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

At present, (1) ILR is a prerequisite to naturalisation as British citizens by adults; (2) ILR enables non UK born children to register as British citizens; (3) the holding of ILR by a parent enables a UK born children to become a British citizen.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Q2. If they plan to abolish ILR, how then will people here become British citizens?

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

ILR was created by the Immigration Act 1971, on 1 January 1973; and some people still alive will have had an equivalent status even before that.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Q1. Do they seriously plan to withdraw ILR from everyone who has it, no matter their age, and how long ago they obtained it?

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Someone needs to start pushing for the details of this policy (which looks totally under-developed). Here are a couple of basic questions to start off.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

So basically … set it in the present day (why not exactly?) or be clear with the audience that history is being played with.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Do the creators themselves even know this?

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Ten minutes into this Lord of the Flies, Ralph tells Piggy that his father is a petty officer in the Royal Navy … but the Royal Navy had a colour bar until 1947.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Really agree with this: The issue isn’t casting actors regardless of skin tone, which is a normal thing to do … In some specific cases, however, such casting blocks an understanding of colour lines in the past.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Irish person here, a bit hazy about English history. I learnt earlier from Radio 4 that Andrew was the first royal to be arrested for more than 300 years. I gather that the last case was in 1649. What was that about then?

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Aren’t there two distinct Epstein scandals? One is about sexual abuse and trafficking, the other about cronyism at a very high level. Each needs a thoroughgoing response, separately.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Excellent piece by @jdportes.bsky.social on the clash between structural drivers of migration, and political pressure faced by Governments. Only candid and informed debate can resolve this.

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

How come Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs get to vote on England’s student loan system?

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

How about a political auction over student loans, rather than immigration policy?

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

www.theguardian.com/society/2026... Why on earth does the @guardian call the Parliament Acts ‘archaic’? They were passed in 1911 and 1949 as democratic measures, in order to ensure social reforms.

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Assisted dying backers could use archaic procedure to bypass ‘undemocratic’ block by peers

Exclusive: MPs backing bill to use ‘nuclear option’ of 1911 Parliament Act if it continues to be blocked by Lords

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Bernard Ryan @bernardryan.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

www.theguardian.com/politics/202... Poor headline, which inadvertently makes Matt Goodwin seem mainstream. His previously reported view was that ethnic minorities born *and raised* in the UK were not necessarily being British.

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Reform byelection candidate refuses to disown claim that people born in UK not necessarily British

Matthew Goodwin, who is standing in Gorton and Denton, said UK-born people from minority ethnic backgrounds were not always British

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